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	'<{title}>' => 'Lucky 13',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="schedule">
	<h2>Schedule</h2>
	<p>
		I realised with a start that I might not be scheduled to come into work when I thought I was.
		I typically need to be there by 16:00, but occasionally, I get scheduled to be there by 15:00.
		It was only about 12:30 though, so I wasn&apos;t even close to late yet.
		I ran to my bulletin board to check my schedule though to be sure of when to come in.
		Okay.
		16:00 both today and tomorrow, and I&apos;ll jot down the coming week&apos;s schedule today when I go in.
		The new schedules are made available on Fridays, usually.
	</p>
	<p>
		But then, I noticed the date on my appointment card pinned to the board.
		The fourteenth!
		But today is the fourteenth!
		I missed my appointment!
		No I didn&apos;t though.
		It&apos;s actually the thirteenth.
		I just need to be sure not to miss my appointment tomorrow.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;m not sure what has me on edge today, but I&apos;m panicking about missing appointed times I&apos;m supposed to be somewhere.
		I&apos;m making good progress in my reading assignment for the week too, so it&apos;s not like I&apos;m having deadline issues at the moment.
		The only part left is a short story.
		I wrote up a long essay as I went too, so that&apos;s done.
		Of course, I still have the other writing assignment to complete, but I predict I&apos;ll have two days on the clock and one day off from work to complete it in, and that doesn&apos;t count tomorrow, which will ba partly taken up by that appointment, but will still offer me some time to work in.
		I have time, and that assignment&apos;ll be a shorter, easier assignment than the one finished today.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I chose the story <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm">2 B R 0 2 B</a>, with the zero being pronounced as &quot;naught&quot;.
			The title represents a telephone number one dials to reach a different type of suicide hotline - one in which they help you commit suicide.
		</p>
		<p>
			Despite the ominous title, the world in the story is actually wonderful.
			It takes place in a future in which a cure for ageing has been found.
			No one dies except via accident, murder, or suicide.
			Of course, the obvious implication is that if no one is dying, the population will explode out of control even more than what we see in our world today, but laws have been put in place to prevent that.
		</p>
		<p>
			<strong>No one is allowed to be born unless someone is willing to die and give their place in humanity to the baby.</strong>
		</p>
		<p>
			With population down lower than today, the world is in a state of peace.
			There&apos;s no need for war over resources, as everyone has plenty when the planet isn&apos;t overpopulated.
			It&apos;s a world I&apos;d love to see made a reality.
			I believe it&apos;s theoretically possible.
			It should be possible to find the causes of the ageing process and halt them.
			Such causes must be explainable by science, we just haven&apos;t uncovered them just yet.
			However, humans are too short-sighted that I wouldn&apos;t be surprised if we never make it this far.
			The problem is that people try to hold each other back instead of lifting each other up.
			Things such as patents prevent us from building off the knowledge of the past.
			One person can&apos;t find this cure, or it&apos;d be found by now.
			It&apos;s vital that we build off the designs of others and allow others to build off our designs if we&apos;re ever going to get a problem so complex solved.
		</p>
		<p>
			I don&apos;t think I took from the story quite what was intended though.
			In this world where one must have a place given to them by someone else to be allowed to live, a couple end up having triplets.
			The parent of one of the parents, the grandparent of the triplets, offered (ostensibly before the triplets were conceived) to give their place to the child.
			But now there were three children.
			The parents would have to choose which child would be allowed to live.
			And to top it off, one parent would be losing not only two of their children, but one of their parents as well.
			That parent resorts to a double murder, then suicide to clear enough places for all three children without losing their parent.
			The parent just couldn&apos;t bear choosing two of their children to die.
			It&apos;s not in human nature to do so.
		</p>
		<p>
			I would love to live in that world though.
			There&apos;s an easy way out of that situation, too: just don&apos;t have children to begin with!
			I guess I&apos;m odd in that I consider that an option.
			I&apos;m already not having children because the world&apos;s already overpopulated as it is though, and besides that, if I had children, I&apos;d be sentencing them to one day die.
			After all, everyone dies, so by creating a child, you&apos;re sentencing that child to die.
			I can&apos;t live with that on my conscience.
			In that world, I&apos;d just not have children to avoid someone else having to die.
			My motives would change, but the resultant course of action would be the same as ever. 
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Vonnegut, K. (1962, January). The Project Gutenberg eBook of 2 B R 0 2 B, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm"><code>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
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